As dean of ASU’s Cronkite School of Journalism, Christopher Callahan is leading a new generation of media corps into a profession the U.S. president has personally declared war on. So why is he smiling?

Diviners of Delight

When Les Corieri first arrived in the Valley from his native Iowa more than three decades ago, it was 118 degrees outside and the Old Town Scottsdale drag was full of boarded-up businesses. “It looked like Beirut,” he says. “I loved it.”

Moisture Farmer

Almost everyone in the world – from Phoenix suburbanites to Syrian refugees, Navajos in northeastern Arizona to lead-poisoned children in Flint – has something in common: water stress.

Transformative Activist

Kendra Tonan-Lizzarago remembers the exact date of her first support group meeting at Trans Spectrum of Arizona: February 18, 2015. She was nervous.

Mindful Citizen

At age 35, Sunny Wight’s body sounded an alarm. A rare form of shingles raged through her nerves; some days one side of her face didn’t function. She was debilitated by depression and fatigue. The cause? Stress.

Mary Ann Mendoza’s son was killed by an undocumented immigrant. Now she’s striving to keep his memory alive by fighting against illegal immigration.

Selected to lead the resurrected Arizona Office of Film and Media, Matthew Earl Jones aims to bring Hollywood back to the land of The Searchers and Psycho.

Forget beach towels and Kindles. When these devoted Valley healers go abroad, they bring stethoscopes, scalpels and hope.

MLB official Ted Barrett brings Jesus to spring training with his umpire ministry.

As consumers become increasingly device-oriented, more and more businesses are utilizing Instagram to sell on the stealth. Some locals are smarting to the trend by leveraging their hefty followings to influence your choices.